Elias Kane

Elias Kane (7 June 1794-12 December 1835) was a US Senator from Illinois (D) from 4 March 1825 to 12 December 1835, succeeding John McLean and preceding William Lee D. Ewing.

Biography
Elias Kane was born in New York City, New York in 1794, and he moved to Kaskaskia, Illinois in 1814 to practice law. He allied himself with slaveholder Jesse B. Thomas and attended the first state constitutional convention in 1818, during which Thomas and Kane failed to legalize slavery in the new state. He served as Secretary of State of Illinois from 1818 to 1822 and in the US Senate from 1825 until his death in 1835. In 1836, Kane County was named for the late senator.